The importance of recruitment limitation in forest plant species colonization: A seed sowing experiment

Flora

Volumn 199, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 263-270

  Graae, Bente Jessen ^a,b   Hansen, T ^a   Sunde, P B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Climate Impacts Research Centre   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ancient forests; Forest continuity; Germination; Seed size; Soil

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RECRUITMENT; SEED; SOWING;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

CIRCAEA LUTETIANA; GALIUM; GALIUM ODORATUM; IMPATIENS; IMPATIENS NOLI-TANGERE; IMPATIENS PARVIFLORA; MILIUM; MILIUM EFFUSUM; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); ROEGNERIA; ROEGNERIA CANINA; RUMEX; RUMEX SANGUINEUS; VICIA; VICIA SEPIUM;

EID: 2542451365     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0367-2530-00154     Document Type: Article

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